Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (930 mails)

[Oddball <monkey9@xxxxxx>]

Administrator schreef:
> > Money, attracts money... which does not make money 'a good thing'...
> > Money simply makes it easier to reach 'market', because good commercials
> > and broadcasttime cost money: about 30% of the investment, to be exact....
> > One thing is for sure:the foundation needs as much money as it can get,
> > not meaning that the 'wrong people for the job' should be concerned
> > about it.
> > As part of the strategies, money realy *has* to be involved.
> > I seriously do think someone with a real understanding of money should
> > be approached when the smoke has cleared, and all necessary institutional
> > talk has been spoken, and the goals have been set.
> >     
>
> I can see that working ... it would make someone's reputation creating a
> business model for FLOSS which makes money, and that should be good
> incentive, apart form the pro-bono-publicum aspect.  All we need is someone
> with a real understanding of money who's prepared to invest some of their
> time and expertise into creating something new for their and our benefit.
>
> Anyone know (or know of) someone like that?
>
> David
>
>   
What i feel as a very good starting point is a post from Carlos Rebeiro,
i quote:
> I'm not sure if is here the correct place to talk about some openSUSE
> government strategy, then I'll let my points here. If I made a mistake,
> please someone guide the following point to new threat. 
>
> Brasil government have FINANCIAL INCENTIVES to companies that push
> opensource to the table and invest on it. I don't know how we will work
> on this segment, but we need to do something I think, maybe have a
> dedicated guy (could be worldwide * but is better be a local one) to
> take care of this critical and important kind of marketshare,
> government.
> I also dont' know about other countries but in Brazil, red hat (as
> fedora), and ubuntu both  have their dedicated guys taking care for
> government.
>
> see you around
> CarlosRibeiro


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